On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:05:47PM +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > At Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:19:28 +0200, > Marwin M. Butcher wrote: > > > if there are I/O errors on an encrypted partition, one or two bad blocks > > for example, is the whole data on this partition lost or, in worst case > > just a few files? > > > > Generally, makes it a difference if the bad blocks lies in the range of > > an encrpypted or uncrypted partition (in terms of more data is lost in > > the first case)? > > If it's not the header, you are fine. If it's LUKS header (that means > either the first 2kb or in a used key material section) your disk > becomes nothing more than a nice fast replacement for > /dev/urandom. Meta data redundancy is planned for the next revision of > LUKS. Unfortunately, working on my encryption stuff has no priority at > all for me. And if you use plain vanilla dm-crypt, there is no header and hence no risk to your data. An error with just be an error like on a regular disk. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
